Tag: religion
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Are Palestinians and Israelis going to hell?
Since I don’t like being trapped in a bubble, I meet Christian priests or have chat with believers. It allows you to have insight into something different. While I am stunned sometimes by claims that I do not agree with, this was exceptional: Are Palestinians and Israelis going to hell? “The attack on 7 October…
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Deeply spiritual and atheist
Some people are spiritual to the degree that they cannot leave the faith. They mold their arguments with possession of cognitive biases, fallacies, formal fallacies and are not well-read. But rather it is because their spirituality is so strong that it won’t allow them to escape it. But some people are deeply spiritual and atheist.…
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How religion thwarts scientific, economic and societal progress
Iran has been involved in nuclear development for nearly 70 years. Its suspected efforts toward a weapon have been ongoing for about 30 to 40 years. Do you think religion thwarts scientific progress? It would take the Czech Republic approximately 1 to 5 years to develop a nuclear weapon, depending on access to materials and…
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Deeply ingrained religion, a plague
Even though I grew up in a non-religious environment, I know and I am fully aware religion is deeply ingrained in some people. But let’s say my knowledge was on the academic level – textbooks, peer-reviewed papers, books. I have seen many documents about megachurches in the USA, but it was my very first experience…
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Religion vs. reality: overpresence of deity
A lot of been described in connection with religions in terms of rationality. Such arguments didn’t omit the perception of respective spiritual power. However, for people who are not biologically inclined to have spiritual experience (just like me), there needs to be added further argumentation. Also, religion vs. reality can be useful for people who…
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Religious clientelism? A Jew? You remain jobless
We should teach young pupils that religions which all ceased to exist (sic!) were nothing but man-made phenomena derrived from ignorance, absence of scientific inquiry, with no internal logic, with no evidence supporting it. But no! We live in the age where not only religions thrive, but religious clientelism exist in its unbeliveably absurd forms.…
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The Christian morals. Why do prisoners torture child abusers?
You can steal, rob, or murder an elderly person, but when you touch a child, it is a huge problem for prisoners in Christian cultures. One can object it may be natural as a huge percentage of prisoners were abused by someone at some point in their childhood (some estimates go from 30 to 70…
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What is really antisemitism and what is not? Ordinary Jews, big business, Zionism and religious clientelism
In 2023 and 2024, the reminiscence of terrible and horror-like antisemitism is re-surging as Hamas is taking delight in kidnapping, torturing, and killing Jewish people. Enormously despicable and heinous crimes breaking the elementary human rights. My view of the conflict is here. Even European Jewry are in distress, Jewish stars are being drawn on their…
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Goldman Sachs is doing God’s work. My own 10 explanations
I completely get the notion the interview with former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein is really old. But I didn’t find any explanation of this on the internet so I have to carry it out myself. No matter what kind of clientelism (and human society is ridden with patron-client relationships) it is (whether religious one:…
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State atheism as a preferable model? The 21st century is the century of religion!
Welcome to the 21st century! The age of science, artificial intelligence, renewable energy, sustainability, space exploration, social media – and now guess what – yes, religion. Christianity: Approximately 2.3 billion adherentsIslam: Approximately 1.9 billion adherents (while the world’s population is projected to grow 32% in the coming decades, the number of Muslims is expected to…